Morris tribune., 1887-03-09
HALLS RANCH, MORRIS, MINI

HALLS RANCH, MORRIS, MINI
Feb. !, 1885.
III. WuITELEY. Esq. Vicc-President
Stevens County Abstract & Real
Estate Agency, Morris, Mimi:
Your communication was received
some time ago. l regret that l can
not give the matter the time its i'm
portance demands, as my time is all
taken this winter in caring for large
stock of horses and cattle, and as am
doing my work alone, l find but little
time to write OF think of anything
else. After residence of fifteen
years on farm in Stevens county,
you will pardon me and not think l
am egotistical i'll believing that l can
write OF Stevens county and its re.
sources from farmers standpoint.
This is healthy county for man
or beast. The soil, a sandy loan, is
adapted to the raising of wheat, oats,
barley and potatoes to perfection. My
average of wheat for the ten years
past has been little over twenty
bushels per acre; oats, forty to sixty :;
barley, thirty; potatoes, $50 to 200.
Some OF my neighborS have raised
much better crops than have, but
that is because they are better farm
erS. l have raised good crops of early
dent. King Philip and flint corn. At
our county fair, held at Morris, the
county seat, each year. | have seen as
fine garden vegetables as can be
grown anywhere in the northwest.
The Departments of Agriculture Re-
ports-No. 36, Dee. |. lSS6-is reli-
able anL approximately correct report
of the crops raised throughout the
country during the year 1886. In that
42.S56.0OO bushels of wheat on 3,067.-
95l acres, worth to the farmers Dec.
l, 1886, 500. 142,l6O. This shows an
average of about fourteen bushels pei
acre, worth to the producer 81 cents
per bushel. find by further exam.
ination of the report, that the fal
famed Dakota has raised 30,704,00
bushels of wheat on 2,675,350 acres
valued to farmers at $l5, 966,0S0, or an
average Of ll1s bushels per acre, worth
50 cents per bushel-of less value pei
bushel on account of its greater dis
lance from market. something worth
remembering when selecting home
/ find by these figures that an average
acre of wheat was worth, Dec. l, 1885
to the farmer of Minnesota, $8.68
while an acre of wheat in Dakota was
worth 1928 at the same date, showing
difference III favor of the Minnesot:
farmer of 1910 per acre. But when i
is remembered that the average yiell
of wheat for 1885 in Stevens county
was Is bushels per acre-four bushels
greater than the average in the State
and ~ bushels greater than the aver
age in DakOta-yalued Dec. at Sill
per acre, or 1913 more than an average
acre of wheat in Dakota, it will not b,
difficult to decide which is the mos
profitable place to raise wheat.
would like to continue these com
parsons, but neither time nor space
will permit.
The immense crops of grass tina
grow annually OH the natural meadow
of these prairies. makes this pre-
eminently stock and dairy county
and now that the farmers are dirsctin!
more time and capital to this hereto
fore neglected branch of farming
they are on the sure road to wealth
The native grasses will produce a
fine butter and beef as can be made
and at less than one-half the cost i
can be produced by an eastern farmer
Tell all your patrons and friends VIII
wish to go into stock-raising an
dairying, that Stevens County is tn
place 10 pitch their tents.
Yours respectfully,
R. J. HALL.